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: : A SEISMOGRAPHIC RECORD : Dante had at his disposal a comprehensive and intellectually consistent image of the cosmos and its relationship to God. -Harold L. Weatherby, The Keen Delight: The Christian Poet in the Modern World, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1975, p.5. : In an age profoundly infected with philosophical scepticism the problem of writing sacred poetry, the great song, requires that we recapture a genuine science of invisible things. This can be done through a grasp by the poet of both the external and internal worlds. The poet conveys his creative intuition into a receptive intuition. : -ibid. pp.123-149. : The poet, who is a member of the Baha段 community, has before him every atom in existence and the essence of all created things1. There is no break between nature, art, poetry, science, religion and personal life. It is all one, a dynamic unity amidst multiplicity, amidst an organic body of ideas. On the basis of a vast corpus of sacred Writings this same poet has before him an immense body of religious literature. Its frameworks of systematic theology, philosophy, epistomology, ontology, aesthetics, theophanology, history and psychology are, for the most part, in their early stages of development. But the foundation is there for a rich and fertile global literature to evolve within a fusion of opposites, on some ladder of reflection and, inevitably, amidst a complex cross-fertilisation. -Ron Price, The Emergence of a Baha段 Consciousness in World Literature, Unpublished Book, 1996. : You get enough principles here : to build a cosmos in your brain, : to wander with Dante through his : world of keen delight, to rebuild : his model, a reconstructed universe. : This is far more than mere living, of : simply amusing oneself, than some : restless dilettante spectator on the lounge : room couch; this is appreciation, deep and : full, far beyond a momentary touch of sorrow; : this is some vortex spinning with ideas driving, : hopefully, its readers into their own memory, : back into a reverie, past depths and the vagueness : of past-times into a oneness that is slowly sweeping : the face of the earth, a search that is self-expression. : This universe, this cosmos, this self, : its likes and dislikes, comings and : goings, faults and weaknesses are : one entity, even in its contradictions: : the oneness of a microcosm in its : egotism and limitations, walking : backwards or forewords, in some : new Rome at the crossroads, in some : solitude and aloneness which is : necessary and unavoidable, it seems, : bringing the past and the future into : now, with delicate scents, pulsations, : unnameable tactile sensations, with : an anxiety surrounding my moments : of tranquillity but with light as the : basis of structure and darkness always : at the periphery, on an inner lifeline of : such complexity, such a seismographic : record and sensibility, such a breadth of : distance within the distilled sphere of : these words and their fusion of opposites. : : Ron Price : 18 August 1996 : 1Baha置値lah, Hidden Words. :

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